Priest impregnated teen, suit says

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Aug 29, 2010 at 12:01 AMAug 29, 2010 at 11:48 AM

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - A Pennsylvania couple secretly videotaped a Roman Catholic priest having sex with their 18-year-old daughter in the basement of their home, and now they're suing, saying he got her pregnant.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — A Pennsylvania couple secretly videotaped a Roman Catholic priest having sex with their 18-year-old daughter in the basement of their home, and now they’re suing, saying he got her pregnant.

The lawsuit alleges that the Rev. Luis A. Bonilla Margarito carried on a sexual relationship with the girl while he was the chaplain of Reading Central Catholic High School and she was a 17-year-old senior there.

The girl’s parents became suspicious and installed a camera in their basement, where Bonilla and the teen were spending lots of time. The camera recorded the couple having sex in November 2009, after she had graduated, according to the suit.

Bonilla, 41, and the girl are now living together.

Bonilla was removed from his dual posts as chaplain and pastor of St. Joseph Church in Reading after her parents took the sex tape to the Diocese of Allentown. He acknowledged an “inappropriate relationship” with the teen, the diocese said.

Bonilla was named the chaplain of Central Catholic in 2008 and befriended the teen, then 17. The suit alleges that Bonilla “began to groom (the teen) for a sexual relationship,” knowing that she suffered from mental-health issues, had been sexually abused by an adult man, and was “susceptible to being manipulated.”